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| White Hinterland – Moon Jam Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Fantastic song. I think it's about retreating into a world of fear and helplessness, and realizing the futility of such emotions, and rising above it. |
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| Nellie McKay – Gin Rummy Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this is about George W. Bush, or more generally, the hope that people might be able to realize their mistakes before they make them, and have the courage to make a change before it's too late. |
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| Neil Young – The Needle And The Damage Done Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I used to hang out with a lot of people who did a lot of drugs. I was the nerd who didn't do much beyond smoke pot. Now they're all gone and I miss them terribly. Every junkie's like a setting sun, indeed. |
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| of Montreal – Rapture Rapes the Muses Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I think the title is basically describing the style of the song. It's really like a disco punk version of a Throwing Muses song, ala The Rapture. Anyone who knows both bands can hear it clearly. |
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| Pixies – U-Mass Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I think it's a very gentle poke at youth culture. He's making fun, but it's affectionate. Most of us who went to college resembled this character at the time, as they should, it's what being young is all about. It's educationallll! |
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| Steely Dan – Black Cow Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I've been to Rudy's many times, it's in Hell's Kitchen on 9th Avenue in New York, and it is indeed the kind of place where such things are likely to occur. It's got a big plastic pig outside. Stop by and have a hotdog if you get the chance, it'll put hair on your chest. |
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| The Tragically Hip – Let's Stay Engaged Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I'm sort of going through this right now. My current girlfriend and I are moving in completely different directions and we're finally realizing that it isn't going to work. It's nobody's fault, it just isn't our time right now. We still respect and love each other, but it's time to go our separate ways. Until we meet again... |
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| Frank Black – Punk Rock City Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This is a fun song. It's about punk rockers genetically engineered to survive on Mars to work in the mines. It's the underground, literally. |
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| The Tragically Hip – Vapour Trails Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song picks up one of the reoccurring themes on Phantom Power, the Mexicans leaning over their hoes are like the Superfarmer bent on the cover of Time in The Rules. |
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| The Tragically Hip – An Inch An Hour Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is an under-rated song. It's like Poets in that I think he means the opposite of what he's saying, or at least is ambivalent, as in Poets he says what poets say doesn't matter, but says it in a beautiful poetic way. Here, he's listing all of these things that don't give him that certain feeling, but the way he says it, especially the vacant walks in moonglow, sure sound like special moments to me. Excellent. |
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| Pavement – Robyn Turns 26 Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Ah, the very last Pavement song, from the At Home With The Groovebox compilation (Pick it up, it's great.)
Here, SM and crew poke fun at their own constituency, the infamous Gen-X Slackers. This song's pretty hilarious and the think stuff she's eatin is Sizzelean, a faux bacon product from the 80's. "Move over bacon, now there's something leaner!"
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| Beck – Modesto Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Oh, I must be in the minority, because I've come to love Stereopathetic, it's craptacular.
But I was never a big fan of this song, smooshed on the end as it is, until recently. It's hilarious from start to finish. I love "staring through a bag of Frito Lay" |
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| Gordon Downie – Chancellor Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Coke Machine Glow is such an excellent album. Some of Gord's best lyrics ever. I love the list of things vampires don't like. Such a strange a beautiful song. |
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| Stereolab – The Free Design Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It's funny, this song has none of the doubled-up vocal harmonies that characterized The Free Design's music and influenced Stereolab so much. For me, Dots & Loops is their most Free Design influenced album, but the Cobra opener, Fuses, could have come right off a Free Design album. |
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| Stereolab – Crest Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I met an Italian girl at the concert last week in NYC, she went on about how much she loved this song and wished they would play it. They didn't, but I made a new friend. |
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| Stereolab – Baby Lulu Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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There's an anarchist philosopher, I forget his name, who talks about how anarchist will naturally always be in the minority, but that it is the anarchist's role to serve as a check on the rest of society, to point out it's flaws. So the project is not utopian, but to always push further. |
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| Stereolab – Barock-Plastik Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Is this an attack on the idea of romantic love? Is the dream of the romantic couple, isolated in their individual world, living only for each other a hinderance to social progress? I love the wonky bass-line. |
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| Stereolab – Sadistic Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This is one of my favorite Stereolab songs. I think the key is in the title. All of this, is of course true, but it is sadistic. But is it more sadistic to tell the truth or let people wallow in illusion? |
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| Frank Black – Superabound Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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There's so much going on in this song, it's hard to know where to start. Well, it's been said that Frank's "ticket to the freaks" was a tab of acid or two, but I don't know if that's neccessary. The song in general is about how even though there are some strange things in this world, like bigfoots, con men, (PT "There's a sucker born every minute" Barnum once put up a sign that said "This Way to the Great Egress" and charged money for it. Egress is a word for exit.) and space travel, sometimes you still don't know what to do with yourself. |
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| Frank Black – Space Is Gonna Do Me Good Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Frank's sick of the adult world, he'd rather fast-forward to the sci-fi future, when California's fallen into the sea leaving "the islands of Phoenix" in the aftermath. He's ready for outerspace... |
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| Frank Black – Pie In The Sky Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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That's exactly right Thundercat, the closest star is Proxima Centauri, four light years away. The universe is both infinite and expanding at the same time. Great song. |
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| Frank Black – Headache Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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A Wrinkle In Time is a really awesome and really weird children's book about extra-terrestrial beings, psychic powers and travel to other planets. Right up Frank Black's alley. |
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| Frank Black – Freedom Rock Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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One of my favorite songs but my ex-girlfriend used to hate it. It's pretty self-explainatory. Music (and life in general) is in the ear of the beholder. |
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| Frank Black – Fiddle Riddle Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I think you're right there, Hawkeye. I love that last verse, how machines live on even though the humans have gone. |
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| Frank Black – Fazer Eyes Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Frank Black really went hardcore into the UFO stuff at the end of the Pixies and the beginning of his solo career. This sounds like a love song, but I think the "fazer eyes" don't belong to a girl, but to a monitoring UFO... |
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| Frank Black – Calistan Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I really have no idea what this one is about, but it's clearly nostalgic. Maybe it's about the way California or the West in general used to be. Yeah, it seems like the land used to belong to the Navajo, then to Mexico, then to the Americans aka John Wayne... |
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| Frank Black – Big Red Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Oh, these Teenager of the Year songs are so great! I can't believe no on has written about them. I'll take on every one, here goes...
This song is about the terraforming and colonization of Mars. They go from Red, to Green with struggling vegetation, to Blue, with actual seas and oceans they make by melting the ice caps. You can pair this song with Punk Rock City from The Cult of Ray to make a Mars duo. I'm sure there's a Pixies song about Mars to make it a trilogy... |
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| Nellie McKay – Suitcase Song Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is a great before/after work song, when you really don't want to go in or you're glad you're leaving. One of her best songs. |
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| Madvillain – Great Day Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is my favorite song on the album. I like the laid back, easy going mood to it. I like to play this on my ipod before I leave the house, it puts me in a villainous mood. |
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| King Geedorah – Fazers Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I love this song, this album is fantastic. I love all the monster movie referrences, especially "Been on Saturday feature, pleased to meet ya." |
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| The Fall – Cab It Up! Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Drunken suits on a bender in NYC. This song perfectly captures what it's like hopping in and out of cabs up and down the city. Great song. |
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| Beck – In A Cold Ass Fashion Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think this is kind of taking the piss at himself, at his own "gimmick wagon", white boy novelty raps. He's a real O.G., "original glue sniffer." At the same time, it's one of his best flowing raps. |
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